Practice of Kinetics (Comprehensive Chemical Kinetics, Volume 1)

424 INDEXbenzyl chloride, matrix photolysis, ESR studyof> 310benzyl radicals, dimerisation of, in tolueneflow method, 316beryllium, alloy with Cu, spring for microbalance,198—, preparation of films of, 183beta-particles, see electronsbiacetyl, as photosensitiser, 77—, quenching by, 5bismuth, clean surface of by cleavage, 184—, mirrors of, radical removal by, 315—, preparation of films of, 183bond dissociation energies, and crossed molecularbeam studies, 175—, and hydrated electron reactions, 123—, and radical reactions, 3—, determination by photosensitisation, 123boric acid, as vessel coating, 11, 99boron, contamination of Si surface, 182boron nitride insulators, for Langmuir probes,328boundary layer, and mass spectrometric sampling,298, 299, 306, 307Bourdon gauge, 13, 14branching, in chain reactions, effect of sensitiserson, 76bridges, for conductivity measurements, 212,213broadening, of Hg 2537 A line, 41, 42bromine, as radical trap, 74—, as scavenger in radiolysis, 70—, dissociation of, 15—, mixing time with C0 2 , 22—, radioactive, production of, 67—, reaction + CH 3> 74—, reaction + H 2 , rate expression for, 396—, reaction + hydrocarbons, steady state in,4, 5—, reaction + K, 288—, reaction + O, 313—, reaction + O s , flash photolysis, 293bromine atoms, determination by calorimetry,326—, reaction 4- C 3 H 9t 74—, steady state concentration in hydrocarbonbromination, 4, 5—, study by ESR, 313bromine azide, matrix photolysis of, 335bromine monoxide radical, excited, from flashphotolysis Br,-f0 3 , 293—, study by ESR, 313buffer system, and relaxation times, 130/ 132,133—, and T-jump, 136, 137buoyancy corrections, for microbalances, 198burners, for flame studies, 169, 170—, separated flame, 281butane, azomethane sensitised decomposition,76, 77—, bromination of, 4—, thermal conductivity of, 77f-butanol, photosensitised decomposition of,77butene, as actinometer, 61—, isomerisation, study using microcatalyticreactor, 234f-butoxy radical, decomposition of, 4, 88—, excited, production of, 77/i-butyl lithium, see lithium/-butyl nitrite, from NO + (Me 8 CO),, 316butyl phthalate, for manometers, 12CC 2 , determination of in flames, 287—, excited, transition probability of, 287^, trapped, 334C 8f trapped, 334cadmium, as photosensitiser, 77—, chemisorption on, 190—, mirror, radical removal by, 315cadmium oxide, +Fe 2 O s , spinel formation,261cadmium resonance lamps, 48calcium, chemisorption on, 190—, oxidation of, rate law, 245—, preparation of films of, 183calcium fluoride, disc for m absorption, 217,21S—, Ge single crystal film on, 184calcium oxide, reaction + Zr silicate, 263calibration, of ESR spectrometer, 309, 312, 313—, of gas chromatograph, 88calorimeter, ice, for acetylation of cellulose,253, 254calorimetry, 97-101—, and dosimetry in radiation chemistry, 68—, for determination of atom concentrations,325-327, 333canal viscometer, for surface viscosity determination,270capacitance measurement, and pressure gauge,13, 14capacity/voltage curve, for adsorption fromsolution, 250capillaries, for flow control and measurement,29capillary columns, in gas chromatography, 79,80